StudioPress Altitude Pro Review

Last updated on September 20th, 2016 by KeriLynn Engel

Altitude Pro is a beautiful Genesis child theme with lots of options for customizing your homepage content. It features big, bold full-size images on the homepage, and is built on the fast, lightweight Genesis framework. Read our StudioPress Altitude Pro review to find out if this premium theme is right for you.

About StudioPress Altitude Pro

The Altitude Pro theme is a child theme of the Genesis framework by StudioPress, so you’ll need both the Genesis framework theme and the Altitude Pro child theme in order for it to work.

A child theme is a special type of WordPress theme that inherits its functions from a designated parent theme — you can read more about how child themes work here. StudioPress explains it as a car metaphor: WordPress is the engine, the Genesis framework is the frame and body, and your chosen child theme (in this case, Altitude Pro) is the paint job on top.

The Genesis framework is solidly coded, and built to be fast, lightweight, and flexible. The developers also place emphasis on security and SEO, and every single child theme is fully responsive.

Features of StudioPress Altitude Pro

Altitude Pro is a lightweight, well-coded theme that’s easy to learn. It has a beautiful modern design with just enough customization options to do the job without overwhelm. Here are a few of its standout features.

Stunning Homepage

The first thing that stands out about this particular StudioPress theme is the eye-catching homepage.

It features a full-width background image at the top of the page, and 3 more background images as you scroll down the page. Each featured image can have content placed over it using widgets, and there are widgetized areas in between each image. Altogether, that makes 7 front page widget areas you can use to build your homepage.

You can replace the images with your own — just keep in mind the default images are 1600 pixels wide and 1050 pixels tall.

Don’t want to use all seven? No problem, just delete the image and leave the widget area blank, and it won’t be displayed.

Homepage Scrolling Effects

To add even more interest to the homepage, each image dims slightly as the user scrolls down, focusing their attention on the next section.

Unlimited Color Options

Instead of being constrained to a few “skins” to choose from, you can use a color picker to choose your accent color. Or just enter in the hex code of the color you want.

The color you choose will be used for links, hover effects, and the footer background.

Flexible Menu Options

Altitude Pro has two header menu areas available: a Header menu that displays on the right side of the page opposite your site title or logo, and a Before Header that is left-aligned and displays above your site title.

As the user scrolls down the page, the Before Header menu disappears while your logo and Header menu stick to the top of the page.

There’s also a footer menu area that displays at the very bottom of the page, immediately above the credits.

Footer Widget Area

Besides the 7 front page widget areas, there’s also a footer widget area that displays on every page across your entire site.

Widgets placed in the footer widget area will be displayed at 100% width. If you add more than one widget, they’ll stack on top of each other.

The background color of the footer area is determined by the Accent Color you choose in the Appearance » Customize » Colors menu.

Flexible Page Layouts and Templates

Under Appearance » Customize » Site Layout, you can choose to display your pages and posts as full-width, with a left sidebar, or with a right sidebar.

Landing: a basic landing page without navigation, designed to boost conversions

Built-in Breadcrumbs

All Genesis themes have the option to enable and customize breadcrumbs, which improve usability and can also help SEO.

Lightweight and Well-Coded

Altitude Pro and Genesis are well-coded, lightweight themes that don’t have the bloat of many other premium WordPress themes.

Because of this, they load quickly, play well with the WordPress core and third-party plugins, and can have SEO benefits for your site.

Documentation and Support

With Altitude Pro you get access to detailed, step-by-step documentation on exactly how to set up your site just like in the demo.

StudioPress also makes available general documentation for the Genesis framework, including code snippets you can use to further customize your theme.

Altitude Pro is available for a one-time purchase fee which allows you to use the theme on an unlimited number of sites. You also get access to unlimited email support. StudioPress is known for the quality and speed of their user support.

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Altitude Pro is just one of dozens of Genesis themes, many of which share the features listed above. They’re all fast, lightweight, well-coded, and easy to use.